Teddy Bears and Shopping Bags

Ch.4

Sonny hated it when he poured his guts out to Carly and the scary thing was that he was doing it on a more frequent basis. After he poured his guts out to Carly, threw a bottle across the room, spilled some more, she checked on Michael and headed out shopping. She'd left everything at the Q's and needed clothing for her and Michael. Sonny was sure she'd come back with a few dozen or so other things to make Jason's place "homier." Jason came in a few hours after that and he found Sonny playing with Michael on the floor.

"Why is Michael here? What's wrong? Where's Carly?

"Michael's here because I'm watching him. Absolutely nothing's wrong and it's Carly where do you think she is?"

"Shopping?" Jason said with a smile thinking of her

"Very good"

"Daddy lookie bear" Michael said to Jason holding up a white teddy bear

"It was Stone's, one of his many get well soon gifts." Sonny says before Jason can ask

"Wasn't he too old?"

"Yea, but whenever you're sick people suddenly treat you like you're five"

"Why?"

"Who knows"

"So what's the real reason that Michael's here?"

"I think Carly will want to tell you that herself"

"You had better believe it" Carly says walking through the doorway armed with a dozen bags. She turns to Johnny "Oh can you bring these to Jason's. Thank you" she says as she dumps everything in Johnny's arms.

Jason looked up at Carly "Does this mean what I think it means?"

She nods, he stands and she runs to him. They embrace and then kiss. Sonny realizes that he definitely missed what was going on between those two. Then Jason scoops down and picks up Michael "We're a family again kiddo"

She smiles and hugs both her men "We never stopped being one, let's go home Jason."

They ignored Sonny, but he didn't mind. He was happy for them, he realized as they kissed that they loved each other. He didn't like Carly all too much, but she loved Jason and Jason was the only person that could keep her semi in check and it was definitely best for Michael and Jason to be together. He smiled as he heard the door slam and realized that he needed to go back to the house and face his ghost, he needed to face Brenda.